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The Unseeing Idol of Light

Overview

One fateful day, Deepti vanishes mysteriously. Baffled by her disappearance and consumed with grief, Prakash, her husband, loses his eyesight. For Prakash, the inexplicable loss of his wife is doubly painful because she was pregnant with their child. And no amount of consolation can bring him solace in the years that ensue. Into this void steps Rajani, a woman with a tormented past. Despite her initial disdain of Prakash, she steadily finds herself drawn to him. And although an intense desire brings them together, Prakash is unable to give Rajani the love she craves just as he is powerless to dispel the luminous memory of Deepti. But where will this grave obsession lead?The Unseeing Idol of Light is a haunting tale that explores love and loss, blindness and sight, obsession and suffering-and the poignant interconnections between them.

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K.R. Meera is a multi-award-winning writer and journalist. She has published short stories, novels and essays, and has won some of the most prestigious literary prizes including the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award, the Vayalar Award and the Odakkuzhal Award. In 2015, she won the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award for Aarachar, widely hailed as a contemporary classic and published by Penguin Random House India as Hangwoman. In 2017, her The Poison of Love was published to ecstatic acclaim. She lives in Kottayam with her husband Dileep and daughter Shruthi.

Ministhy S. is an IAS officer who hails from Kerala and works in Uttar Pradesh. She is also a writer and translator. Her translation of K.R. Meera's The Poison of Love has been widely lauded as a masterpiece. Her books in English include essay collections and books for children. She has also translated books from Hindi and English to Malayalam.